Collected Meditations
Showing 19 quotesWork is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.— Khalil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.— Khalil Gibran
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Wisdom
Time has been transformed, and we have changed; it has advanced and set us in motion; it has unveiled its face, inspiring us with bewilderment and exhilaration.— Khalil Gibran
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Time
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.— Khalil Gibran
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Teacher
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.— Khalil Gibran
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.— Khalil Gibran
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Strength
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.— Khalil Gibran
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Sad
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.— Khalil Gibran
But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.— Khalil Gibran
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.— Khalil Gibran
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Poetry
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.— Khalil Gibran
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Nature
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.— Khalil Gibran
I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.— Khalil Gibran